Syd Barrett on the slide to Scream Thy Last Scream, here he still knows he's going, in the latter he no longer does. He's on the edge of the dark side of drug-taking and should have been receiving on going treatment. Instead he's adopted the philosophy 'if your not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room'.

The rest of the band return to the themes explored here: "I'm much obliged to you for making it clear that I'm not here'' links to 'Wish you were here', "I never knew the moon could be so thick" links to 'see you on the Dark side of the Moon", "I'm wondering who could be writing this song.'' links to 'Comfortably Numb' and Syd himself is Pink in 'The Wall' and one whole 'Crazy Diamond'.